Nonequilibrium Criticality at Shock Formation in Steady States
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
The steady state shock formation in processes like nonconserving asymmetric simple exclusion processes in varied situations is shown to be a nonequilibrium critical phenomenon. The diverging length scales and the quantitative description of the transition including the phase boundary are obtained from a few general properties of the dynamics without relying on specific details.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0408563,
title = {Nonequilibrium Criticality at Shock Formation in Steady States},
author = {Sutapa Mukherji and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0408563},
year = {2009}
}
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